Recipients didn’t start businesses, advance their education, save money, or pay debts.

Recipients didn’t start businesses, advance their education, save money, or pay debts.
“Caucus leadership wanted to use this to send a message to incoming members like Carrie Isaac, Nate Schatzline and others that they need to stay in line. The attempt backfired.”
With the influx of lethal drugs and human smuggling, Texas Democrats are in full support of Texas taxpayers paying for illegal immigrants.
California Gov. Newsom releases ads attacking Texas’ recent pro-life efforts.
The state government doesn’t have to play by the same money rules as Texans.
Cason asks Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for a statewide investigation into pornographic books in school libraries.
His announcement makes for the 18th lawmaker not seeking re-election in the Texas Legislature.
There are currently 18 lawmakers who have announced they will not be seeking re-election to their current positions.
Dozens of liberal lawyers are lined up to challenge Texas Republicans’ signature election security bill in court.
Topics at the first gubernatorial debate included border security, securing the state’s electrical grid, and vaccine mandates.
The endorsement represents Trump’s increasing involvement in the 2022 Texas election cycle.
A federal judge in the Northern District of Texas blocked an injunction requested by the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association, allowing the airline to mandate the jab.
Employees at a Texas Lockheed Martin plant are staging a rally to peacefully protest president Biden’s vaccine edicts.
The newly appointed member of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission’s Texas Advisory Committee is ready to tackle tough issues.
Following the federal government’s failure to acknowledge and handle the border crisis, the Center for Renewing America optimizes policy for state power.
Shortly after Houstonians found out their red light camera program is back, word got out that a local police officer and vocal advocate for the program was also on the payroll for the company that operates them.
At the conclusion of the 82nd Legislative Session three Republican House members found themselves with voting records that abjectly failed Texas taxpayers. Reps. John Davis, Allan Ritter, and Dee Margo were the bottom of the barrel – all scoring a failing “F” on the Fiscal Responsibility Index.
During the special session, State Representatives Erwin Cain (R-Como) and Bill Zedler (R-Arlington) successfully added amendments to SB 1, the omnibus fiscal matters bill, which respectively increased transparency in the state budget and local school districts. Unfortunately, those measures were stripped out when the bill was considered in a less than conservative conference committee.
Much like the story of the Roman Emperor Nero fiddling while Rome burned, the UT administration is standing idly by while the cost of tuition continues to skyrocket. Instead of offering a plan of their own, they’re choosing to “fiddle” away with rhetoric designed only to protect the status quo.
With a hefty number of new faces added to the ranks of Texas’ legislative body politic this session in the wake of what could be described as a “conservative landslide” in November 2010, many folks want to know, “How did the freshmen do?”
In a legislative session controlled by a rhetorically conservative super-majority, they accomplished the bare fiscal minimum but did little to control future government growth. This is reflected on the 2011 Fiscal Responsibility Index, with legislators averaging a paltry 61 percent.
Here’s another California vs. Texas comparison: One state requires a 2/3 majority of both legislative chambers to pass a tax increase, and one state attempted to create the same type of taxpayer protection, but couldn’t even get it to the floor for a vote. Sadly, it’s California on the right side of this one.
Here’s the breakdown of how Rep. Larry Gonzales (R-Round Rock) has voted throughout the course of the latest debate on auto-spending the Economic Stabilization Fund. It’s a case of legislative votes not meshing with political words.
Health Care Compact legislation championed by Rep. Lois Kolkhorst and Sen. Jane Nelson has been called many things, but perhaps the best way to describe the Compact is the difference between the one-size-fits-all approach to health care policy of the Federal Government and the states’ need for health care solutions that are tailored for them that actually work.
They were against it before they were for it before they were against it… Sometimes legislators votes are enough to give constituents a case of public policy whiplash. Such is the case with State Reps. Vicki Truitt (R-Southlake) and Larry Gonzales (R-Round Rock).